The Trump administration has experienced unprecedented turnover, with one official after another either resigning or being fired for a whole litany of reasons, but one seems to be untouchable: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Now it’s been reported that he used an aide at the EPA to get a conservative group to hire his wife for a job she isn’t qualified for. (more…) Read more
Wallnau: Christians Battled Demons Unleashed by Christians in Singapore
June 15, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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Professional con man and Trump bootlicker Lance Wallnau recorded a video claiming that a group of “key intercessors” had to go to Singapore to fight a spiritual battle against demons unleashed by other Christians who had prayed against Kim Jong-un to “cleanse” the area for the Trump-Kim summit. (more…) Read more
CBS: Sanders Leaving White House at End of Year
June 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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CBS News reports that White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is planning to leave at the end of the year, along with her deputy, Raj Shah. She denies it, of course. Given her track record of lying, that pretty much guarantees that it’s true. (more…) Read more
Boone: God Will Punish Those Who Criticize Our Leaders. If He Likes Them.
June 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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Pat Boone, terrible singer turned terrible writer for the Worldnetdaily, is pulling a trick that right-wing Christians often do, citing the Bible about God putting all political leaders in power and warning that he will punish those who resist them — but only if Boone likes them, it seems. (more…) Read more
Report: Cohen Losing Attorney, Is About to Flip
June 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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ABC News reports that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is losing his attorneys over a dispute about legal fees and that he is on the verge of flipping on Trump and cutting a deal with prosecutors. This is the proverbial white whale for Mueller, the one who truly can bring Trump down, and Trump must be quaking in his Italian shoes right now. (more…) Read more
Trump’s Convenient and Hypocritical Self-Delusion
June 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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Upon his return from Singapore, Trump immediately, and predictably, declared that he had fixed the entire problem of nuclear weapons in North Korea through sheer force of personality, without one single tangible thing actually being done. And of course, he did it on Twitter: (more…) Read more
Wingnut: Bourdain, Spade Sacrificed by the Illuminati
June 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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Paul Begley, one of the seemingly endless number of far-right paranoiacs and con artists that populate the Christian right, says that Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade may not have actually killed themselves. Nope, they might have been sacrificed by the Illuminati. (more…) Read more
Trump Emoluments Lawsuit Continues
June 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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A U.S. District Court in Maryland is where Donald Trump is being sued for violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, arguing that he is using the presidency to enrich himself by receiving business from foreign governments to his resorts in order to influence his decisions. He’s being sued by the city of Washington, DC and the state of Maryland. (more…) Read more
When the Truth Inadvertently Slips Out
June 14, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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One of the reasons why Trump’s lawyers don’t want him to testify before the Mueller investigation is that he has a terrible and incurable case of verbal diarrhea. He just talks. And talks. And talks. And goes in circles. And sometimes, the truth just kind of slips out unintentionally, as it did in his press conference at the summit with Kim Jong-Un. (more…) Read more
Culture Wars Radio, Episode 1
June 13, 2018 By Ed Brayton
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The first episode of the new Culture Wars Radio podcast is now available to the public. You can listen to it or download it here. It should also be available on iTunes soon. Our Patreon subscribers could listen to it three days ago. They also have access to our special supplemental shows and the first of those is now uploaded. It takes a close look at a footnote in Justice Thomas’ concurring opinion in the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling and how… Read more
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